Abdul Aziz, Umma Naima
A growing body of literature is advancing the impact of financial inclusion and digital finance on marginalized populations. However, mainstream scholarship has not focused on understanding the potential drivers and challenges of digital approaches to financial inclusion. This study aims to investig...
M. G. Quibria, Shamsun Naher Ahmed, Ted Tschang, Mari-Len Reyes-Macasaquit
Vishanth Weerakkody, Ramzi El‐Haddadeh, Faris Al‐Sobhi, Mahmud Akhter Shareef et al.
The adoption and diffusion of electronic government is often impeded by many social and individual factors relating to citizens. In this respect, intermediaries have emerged as a new model for delivering e-government services to overcome such obstacles. This study aims to examine the role of interme...
Adnan Mustafa AlBar, Md. Rakibul Hoque
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) can play an important role in the national economy of developing countries. The adoption of information and communication technology (ICT) has enabled local SMEs to participate in the international market. However, little research has addressed issues related to S...
Clive Holtham
Syed Akther, Hirofumi Fukuyama, William Weber
Anuradha Mathrani, Tarushikha Sarvesh, Rahila Umer
This article showcases digital inequalities that came to the forefront for online learning during the COVID-19 lockdown across five developing countries, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Afghanistan. Large sections of population in developing economies have limited access to basic digital serv...
Peter G. W. Keen, Ron Mackintosh, Mikko Heikkonen
From the Book: Foreword We at Nokia are part of the transformation of communication for the human race. Mobile phones and wireless technology are having that profound an impact on society around the world. Soon there will be a billion mobile phones in use and within just a few years the Internet w...
Salahuddin M. Aminuzzaman, Harald Baldersheim, Ishtiaq Jamil
The study assesses the efficacy of the Village Phone (VP) scheme in ameliorating the 'information poverty' of the villages that have obtained access to mobile phones in Bangladesh. More specifically, the study has sought to describe the ways in which the VP is operated, how the service is utilised a...
Jean N. Lee, Jonathan Morduch, Saravana Ravindran, Abu Shonchoy et al.
Rapid urbanization is reshaping economies and intensifying spatial inequalities. In Bangladesh, we experimentally introduced mobile banking to very poor rural households and family members who had migrated to the city, testing whether mobile technology can reduce inequality by modernizing traditiona...
Atika Qazi, Najmul Hasan, Olusola Abayomi‐Alli, Glenn Hardaker et al.
Even though information and communication technology (ICT) is essential for everyday life and has gained considerable attention in education and other sectors, it also carries individual differences in its use and relevant skills. This systematic review aims to examine the gender differences in ICT ...
Abdul Bayes, Joachim von Braun, Rasheda Akhter, Bayes, Abdul et al.
The intent of the present study is to evaluate the role of telecommunications within the contexts of rural development in general and of poverty reduction in particular. Bangladesh has been selected as a case study due to the uniqueness it displayed in an innovative program for expanded telecom infr...
Abdul Bayes
Abstract The intention of the present paper is to evaluate the role of telecommunications within the contexts of rural development in general and of poverty reduction in particular. Bangladesh has been selected as a case study due to the uniqueness it displayed in an innovative program for expanded ...
Mohammad Afshar Ali, Md. Rakibul Hoque, Khorshed Alam
Purpose This paper aims to investigate and comprehend the nature of the relationship between e-government development and the digital economy. Design/methodology/approach A multidimensional research paradigm is developed on the basis of the technology adoption model and Fountain’s technology enactme...
Mahmud Akhter Shareef, Uma Kumar, Vinod Kumar, Yogesh K. Dwivedi
The objective of this current study is to identify the critical factors that contribute to the intention by citizens of developing countries to adopt an EG system. In this research, we explore literature from marketing, sociology, e-commerce, EG, organisational behaviour, information technology, pub...